Papers on “transparency”
Research on “transparency” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “transparency” appeared in 896 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (195), information systems (136) and management (136).
- 168 of them were published in 2025, against 59 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (8), Cornell University (6) and Goethe University Frankfurt (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were AI & Society (45), Resources Policy (15) and Government Information Quarterly (15).
- The most-cited of them is “The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 6,181 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 20 | 19 | 7 | 24 | 12 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 27 | 26 |
| Information Systems | 9 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 24 | 23 |
| Management | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 24 | 28 |
| AI | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 32 | 30 |
| Finance | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 15 |
| Accounting | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| Marketing | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 5 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 59 | 57 | 48 | 64 | 72 | 89 | 94 | 98 | 168 | 147 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI & Society | 45 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 15 |
| 3 | Government Information Quarterly | 15 |
| 4 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 13 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Ethics | 13 |
| 6 | Ethics and Information Technology | 10 |
| 7 | Journal of Business Research | 9 |
| 8 | Artificial Intelligence Review | 9 |
| 9 | Information Systems Frontiers | 8 |
| 10 | Information & Management | 7 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 8 |
| 2 | Cornell University | 6 |
| 3 | Goethe University Frankfurt | 6 |
| 4 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 6 |
| 5 | University of Amsterdam | 6 |
| 6 | University of Bologna | 6 |
| 7 | Australian National University | 5 |
| 8 | National University of Singapore | 5 |
| 9 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 5 |
| 10 | University of Antwerp | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 105 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 72 |
| 3 | China | 52 |
| 4 | Germany | 43 |
| 5 | Italy | 37 |
| 6 | Spain | 33 |
| 7 | Australia | 29 |
| 8 | France | 28 |
| 9 | India | 28 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 26 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | accountability | 71 |
| 2 | blockchain | 39 |
| 3 | AI ethics | 37 |
| 4 | fairness | 28 |
| 5 | trust | 27 |
| 6 | AI governance | 25 |
| 7 | explainable AI | 24 |
| 8 | generative AI | 22 |
| 9 | algorithmic bias | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,181 | 71.8 | The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines | Nature Machine Intelligence | 2019-09-02 | Anna Jobin, Marcello Ienca, Effy Vayena |
| 2 | 2,517 | 34.8 | A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2020-10-21 | Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan |
| 3 | 2,150 | 20.1 | 1 Blockchain’s roles in meeting key supply chain management objectives | International Journal of Information Management | 2017-12-12 | Nir Kshetri |
| 4 | 1,980 | 22.4 | Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews | Government Information Quarterly | 2019-06-25 | Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug |
| 5 | 828 | 13.1 | Blockchain technology for bridging trust, traceability and transparency in circular supply chain | Information & Management | 2021-07-27 | Piera Centobelli, Roberto Cerchione, Pasquale Del Vecchio et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “transparency”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transparency
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